Oswald's Lucky Lunch
From Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in Sky Scrappers
The History
Alright, so if you read the previous posts, Disney had some successful cartoon series, but he never really had a breakout character to market. Alice was a real girl, Pete was a villian, not the star, and the only character to make it out of the Laugh-O-Grams was Julius the Cat, who went on to be Alice's sidekick.
Julius was little more than a Felix the Cat rip-off and Disney was never satisfied with the character. Yet Disney's distributer at the time, Charles Mintz, insisted that the character stayed just to compete with Felix the Cat.
As the contract to the Alice series came to a close, Disney decided that it was time to make a wholly original character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
In many ways Oswald is a prototype Mickey Mouse, but without a voice. Later portrayals try to give him a more unique personality, but in the actual shorts themselves he's really not that much different from any other 1920s rubber hose cartoon star.
What made Oswald so successful was the animation itself and how Disney's team of artists were, at the time, pushing the boundaries of animation.
The Food
Now to represent Oswald's run of shorts, I've chosen the last Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon that Disney would release, Sky Scrappers.
In it, Oswald, while working at a construction site, looses his lunch, and a cute girl cat, named Sadie, gives him one of the lunch boxes that she's selling from her cart. The lunch consists of a hot dog, mustard, and you see an apple in one shot.
There's a some sight gags involving the hot dog, and indeed the previous Oswald short was all about hot dogs as well, so the animators got a lot of milage out of the concept.
But what made the hot dog so funny?
Well besides the name itself, the sausage's shape made it perfect to animate in flat back in white, making it easy to read on screen. Plus, by the late 1920s, hot dogs had become synonymous with street food and the working man, due to it's ease of preparation and eating on the go.
Therefore today we'll be covering two recipes for the price of one, as a hot dog isn't a full lunch on it's on.
Red Hot, Hot Dogs
Now, if you want to be authentic you'll need Nathan's Classic Franks rather then the more modern bologna hot dogs. Frankfurter sausage was the original hot dogs at the turn of the century, brought over by German and Polish immigrants. Nathan's was also the biggest name brand in Hot Dogs during the 1920s.
Ingredients
Frankfurters
Vienna Rolls
Spicy Mustard
Cookware
Grill, griddle, or cast iron skillet
Directions
Grill franks, as many as you want, on either an outdoor grill or a cast iron skillet indoors, just untill the edges start to char and the sausage plumps up some.
Remove from heat and place franks inside a slice Vienna rolls.
Spread on spicy mustard to taste
Serve with apple chips
Apple Chips
As I said before, just a hot dog on it's own isn't a full lunch. You want at least a side to go with it.
In the short Oswald has what looks to be an apple in his lunch box. But an apple on it's own is boring, so what else goes with hot dogs?
Chips!
Or in this case Apple Chips.
Ingredients
2 apples
Sugar to taste
Cinnamon to taste
Cookware
Baking sheets
Parchment paper
Knife
Directions
Preheat oven to 225F degrees.
Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
Core and cut apples into thin slices. The variety of apple your choice.
Lay slices out evenly on baking sheets
Bake for one hour, then flip slices and bake for another hour.
Remove from oven and let cool for 5 mins. If crisp, they're done, if not, then add them back into the oven and cook at 15 min intervals until done.
Once out of the oven sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon if so desired.
This isn't the end of our discussion of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit by any means. Tune in next time where we talk about how Disney lost the rights to his beloved character over a nice sandwich.
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Wow new profile pic?
it looks reaaaalllyyy good, did you draw it? (oh the cat on the lap is cute lil' detail)
yes! i actually prefer drawing or creating them myself because it's more personal instead of just some picture or image
The person inside is my current Avatar or however you call it and the same could go for the cat
After all I had a cat pfp on here for a while, so I wanted to include the cat again like i did with the last pfp
at least this time I'm happy with the pfp and it will probably take a long time till i want to change it, unlike the last one that i wanted to change but was to unmotivated/artblocked to do so
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